A group of barbers on Tuesday said they couldn't stop thinking about a 16-day-old baby who they helped save after he was abandoned in a Suisun City strip mall by his teenage father. Jodi Hernandez reports. (Published Tuesday, July 25, 2017)

A group of barbers on Tuesday said they couldn't stop thinking about a 16-day-old baby who they helped save after he was abandoned in a Suisun City strip mall by his teenage father.

Surveillance video shows Mitchell driving away after leaving a baby carrier — with the infant strapped in to it — in the North Bay parking lot. Officers were able trace the car's license plate back to Mitchell, police said.

A little after 3 p.m. Monday, a pair of barber shop employees at the strip mall on the 140 block of Sunset Avenue noticed the car seat and went to pick it up. When they saw the baby, they called 911.

Initially, the boy did not appear injured, but he was airlifted to Children's Hospital Oakland as a precaution when he appeared to have redness in one eye, police said.

"We want him to grow up and come here and and get a haircut at J's shop. He's part of the family now," Saeidah said.

For his part, Mitchell was involved in a hit-and-run crash in Fairfield later Monday and was apprehended by Fairfield police in that incident. He was transported to North Bay Medical Center, where he was treated for injuries sustained in the collision.

Suisun City police interviewed him at the hospital and identified him as the boy's father.

"The suspect admitted to ... using drugs the day of the incident," said Jose Martinez with the Suisun City Police Department. "He was not aware he had left the baby."

Police said the baby's mother is not considered a suspect, but their investigation continues.

Mitchell was arrested and taken into custody on probable cause for child endangerment, child abandonment, committing a felony while on bail and misdemeanor possession of suspected cocaine, Suisun City police said.